Enough Said: review and trailer

DOES dating get any easier as you age?

Enough Said is a superb middle-age rom-com about the need to accept change

Not judging by the beautifully observed, very funny and tender romantic comedy, Enough Said, from writer-director Nicole Holofcener (Lovely And Amazing, Friends With Money).

The picture is a well-crafted delight with plenty of laughs and winning performances from Julia Luis-Dreyfuss (TV’s Seinfeld and Veep) and the late James Gandolfini as a couple whose middle-aged fears and insecurities prove as obstructive as any amount of youthful inexperience or blundering stupidity.

Louis-Dreyfus plays divorcee Eva, a masseuse, who is growing antsy at the impending departure for college of her daughter Ellen (Tracey Fairway).

Fearful of being alone she latches onto two people she meets at a party near her home in Santa Monica, Los Angeles: the rather superior, Marianne (Catherine Keener), a poet, and an easy-going overweight guy, Albert (Gandolfini).

The latter she starts dating, the former becomes one of her clients, nattering incessantly about her irritating loser of an ex-husband. The twist?

Albert is the ex in question. When Eva makes the connection all kinds of alarm bells start ringing.

Can she trust her own judgment or will Marianne unwittingly poison their romance?

The picture combines a clever and amusing narrative hook with soul-searching emotion and drama that feels absolutely authentic and is terrifically played by the leads.

Louis-Dreyfuss is a bundle of mixed emotions which are a joy to behold and Gandolfini is simply lovely.

The result is a superb middle-age rom-com about the need to accept change and the wisdom to resist it.